Hobby Musings
Hobby Musings: 2020 – Unique Panini basketball year

Hobby Musings: 2020 – Unique Panini basketball year

Hobby Musings: 2020 – Unique Panini basketball year – While the 2019-20 basketball trading card season has been a successful one, it’s certainly provided its share of challenges because of the coronavirus pandemic. Throughout those challenges, Panini continued to provide products that were enthusiastically ripped by people hoping to add cards of Zion Williamson and the rest of the stellar rookie class to their collections.

To find out more about what this year meant for Panini, I had the chance to catch up with Brand Manager Keith Hower via email.

Hobby Musings: Topps bringing F1 to hobby world

Hobby Musings: Topps bringing F1 to hobby world

Hobby Musings: Topps bringing F1 to hobby world – Topps is well known as the exclusive home of MLB-licensed trading cards. Recently, they entered into another exclusive agreement by putting ink to paper with Formula 1. Operating on a global scale, the company will be releasing F1 trading cards and stickers. To find out more about this, I had the chance to catch up VP of Global Development Clay Luraschi via email.

Hobby Musings: Discussing a crazy basketball card year – Part 1

Hobby Musings: Discussing a crazy basketball card year – Part 1

Hobby Musings: Discussing a crazy basketball card year – Part 1- The sports card world’s big 2020 has been fueled in large part by the NBA market and its impressive rookie class. With LeBron James and the Lakers winning the NBA Finals to end the season, the focus shifts to the upcoming draft and a new wave of prospects. Before that happens though, I had the chance to catch up with Beckett’s Steven Dalton via email to see what this past NBA season meant for the hobby.

Hobby Musings: Chatting with Notre Dame / NFL QB Rick Mirer

Hobby Musings: Chatting with Notre Dame / NFL QB Rick Mirer

Hobby Musings: Chatting with Rick Mirer – Former QB Rick Mirer has worn a lot of hats in his career. Among other things, he’s been the quarterback of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, the No. 2 pick of the 1993 NFL draft, a longtime NFL gunslinger and a wine buff. He’s also signed countless autographs over the years and has lent his signature to help out Signatures for Soldiers.

I had the chance to catch up with Mr. Mirer via email to discuss his experiences with autographs and sports memorabilia.